Emirates Post's daily average mail volumes cross 1 million this month
Emirates Post’s Ramoul Sorting Centre handled an average of over 1 million pieces of lettermail per day in the first week of April, against the normal average of between 500,000 and 800,000 pieces.
The increasing mail volumes have prompted Emirates Post to increase the sorting capacity by acquiring more advanced sorting machines, which are due to be installed at Ramoul at the end of 2007, with a capacity of 3 million pieces of mail per day.
‘The rising mail volumes are a reflection of accelerated business activity and booming national economy. These volumes endorse UAE’s position as a major business and tourism hub and demonstrates Emirates Post’s ability to handle such huge volumes,’ said Mr. Abdulla Al Daboos, Director General, Emirates Post.
Incoming mail is sorted at the Ramoul Sorting Centre and dispatched to the respective main and sub post offices within 24 hours, to be deposited in P.O. Boxes before 10 am. The outgoing international mail is sent to the Mail Transit Hub at Dubai airport before 2 a.m., processed using state of the art systems and dispatched by regular flights.
As part of the expansion, Emirates Post is building a new postal operations hub adjacent to the existing sorting centre. The three-storey building will house a highly advanced mail sorting facility as well as offices of Electronic Document Centre (EDC), Emirates Marketing & Promotions (EMP) and Training & Development Centre.
The new machines will increase mail sorting capacity by 10 times. The new mail sorting centre will have the ability to automate registered mail processing, automatically redirect mail, handle large-size envelops and heavier mail, read addresses more rapidly and categorise mail as per P.O. Box numbers.
